Original | Odaily Planet Daily
Author | Azuma
On the evening of June 10th Beijing time, Uniswap Labs officially announced the acquisition of the interactive encrypted survival game Crypto: The Game (CTG) based on the Base blockchain. The specific amount was not disclosed. CTG’s three co-founders, Dylan Abruscato, Tyler Cagle, and Bryan Lee, will all join Uniswap to jointly promote the development of the third season of CTG.
From a positioning perspective, CTG is a blockchain-based “real-life Battle Royale” type game, which can be simply understood as a blockchain version of “The Hunger Games” or “Squid Game”.
In CTG, players need to purchase tickets to obtain limited game participation qualifications (410 people in the first season, 800 people in the second season, and undecided for the third season). The tickets are in the form of NFTs, with an initial sale price of 0.1 ETH, and subsequent free trading is allowed – this means that players can indirectly obtain participation qualifications through the secondary market, including those players who have been eliminated and wish to “make a comeback”.
After the game starts, players holding NFT tickets will be randomly assigned to one of 10 different tribes, and then the Battle Royale officially begins.
During the game (with a maximum time limit of 10 days to ensure timely completion of the game), all players will participate in daily “immunity challenges” as tribes. The challenges take various forms (such as arcade games or treasure hunts, etc.), and the tribe with the highest daily challenge score will have a “peaceful night” (i.e., all members are safe), while other tribes must vote to eliminate one player internally.
Regarding the screening criteria for voting, a player who has actually participated in the game once told UnChained:
When eliminated, players holding NFT tickets will also undergo a transformation – from player identity to jury identity, to vote for the final winner on the last day of the game’s longest time limit, and the final winner will ultimately enjoy all the amounts in the prize pool alone.
In the past few months, CTG has successfully held two seasons of games. In the first season game, a total of 410 players participated, with a total prize pool of 41 ETH, and an anonymous player named MFL won in the end; in the second season game, a total of 800 players participated, with a total prize pool of 80 ETH, and the winner was player number 733.
When talking about his winning experience, MFL once told Decrypt that he believed most other players were smarter than him, and because he did not form alliances privately, he initially expected to be eliminated early. So his attitude towards this game is to “enjoy the competition”, such as making interesting emojis for other players or writing poems to express his views on the game.
However, the reality was that MFL never received an elimination ticket from start to finish and eventually won the grand prize. CTG co-founder Dylan Abruscato commented on this, stating that MFL’s behavior won the favor of other players in the game, proving that this was also a successful strategy.
In conclusion, the fun of CTG lies in its successful combination of competitiveness and human game. Another very important point is that CTG will explain the real-time game situation through official podcasts every day to fully mobilize the emotions of external audiences, increase the level of discussion on social media, and build momentum for the game.
As for Uniswap, as a leading figure in the DeFi field, Uniswap has also expanded its business into other non-DeFi areas in the past, such as acquiring the NFT aggregation trading platform Genie and developing mobile wallet services on its own, but directly entering the gaming field is still a first (there have been some indirect cooperation cases before).
When talking about the transaction, Uniswap described it as follows:
“This year has been very busy for Uniswap. We released UniswapX, submitted v4, launched the Uniswap wallet, added support for more chains, and we have more plans. Uniswap’s goal has always been simple – to create products that provide the best on-chain experience for users. That’s why we are very excited to welcome CTG. ”
As for whether Uniswap’s entry will affect CTG’s game mechanism, Uniswap also explained that fans do not need to worry. The game mechanism will not change, but there will be some new designs. The specific content cannot be revealed too much, but it is believed that the third season will be the best season so far.
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